If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force. . . The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.
With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users. . . The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.
Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual. ' That is why it is effective.
. . . as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.
Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.
I am not [. . . ] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [. . . ] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea. ' You know, we eat - the others watch.
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.